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Preposterously is how we turn preposterous into a word about manner or degree: in a completely unreasonable or silly way. Prices can be preposterously high; a claim can be preposterously ; someone can preposterously insist they saw nothing. Same feeling as preposterous, just used to say how far something goes, or how it is done. It is formal enough for an essay and colourful enough for a complaint. Though actually, ordinary speech often prefers ridiculously, which is a close friend of this word and easier in everyday talk. You are still saying the thing has gone past what common sense will accept.
荒謬地、離譜地
組成From preposterous + -ly. The -ly turns the adjective into an adverb.
同家族的字
- preposterousthe adjective this adverb is built from
- preposterousnessthe noun: the quality of being completely unreasonable
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
preposterouslyadv/pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/
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In a preposterous manner.
- Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.
- The opening sections of Martin’s biography are clogged with genealogical chronicles of the Garcías (the father’s family) and the Márquezes (the mother’s), snaking into the 19th century — a preposterously tangled story of cousins and noncousins united in wedlock, nonwedlock, near-incest, vendetta-mania and frontier trailblazing in the Colombian wilds[…]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。